Chandos Drive Martlesham, East Suffolk

39 addresses across 3 postcodes (IP12), about 420 m (0.3 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 38600516.

  • Sales: 45 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £471,250 across 2 sales.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in East Suffolk cost £277,949 in August 2026 (-2.3% on a year); private rents averaged £848 a month.
  • Energy: 18 homes have an energy certificate (B: 2, C: 3, D: 11, E: 2).
  • Flood: 3 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Landfill: 1 historic landfill site within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, Bloomfield's Farm, is 160 m away.
  • Storm overflows: 1 storm overflow within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 6 times (1 hours) in 2025.
  • Radon: Up to 1 to 3% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A12, carries 46,131 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in East Suffolk costs £2,335 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Woodbridge, about 3.6 km (2.2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 350 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 30 to 33 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 3 of its 39 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Martlesham Surgery, about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away.
  • People: About 610 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 91% of households owned their home and 29% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 4 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often public order.
  • Road safety: 1 collision in which someone was hurt was reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025; 1 involved a pedestrian.

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House sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20252£471,250£470,000£472,500
20241£371,000£371,000£371,000
20221£440,000£440,000£440,000
20216£334,000£312,500£385,000
20201£330,000£330,000£330,000
20191£427,000£427,000£427,000
20182£402,500£380,000£425,000
20161£270,000£270,000£270,000
20115£235,000£181,500£315,000
20101£292,000£292,000£292,000
20093£175,000£170,000£190,000
20081£225,000£225,000£225,000
All 45 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
26 Aug 20221 IP12 4STDetached£440,000
27 May 20111 IP12 4STDetached£235,000
18 Feb 20104 IP12 4STDetached£292,000
7 Aug 20095 IP12 4STDetached£170,000
13 Aug 20246 IP12 4STSemi-detached£371,000
24 Nov 20216 IP12 4STSemi-detached£333,000
1 Apr 20166 IP12 4STSemi-detached£270,000
17 Nov 20096 IP12 4STSemi-detached£190,000
23 Jan 20016 IP12 4STSemi-detached£52,000
29 Jul 20046A IP12 4STSemi-detached£175,000
3 Apr 20207 IP12 4STDetached£330,000
30 Sep 20087 IP12 4STDetached£225,000
9 Feb 20017 IP12 4STDetached£107,000
31 Jul 20078 IP12 4STDetached£320,000
13 Nov 200710 IP12 4STSemi-detached£235,000
15 Aug 200111 IP12 4STDetached£114,000
1 Apr 202112 IP12 4STDetached£335,000
7 Jan 202113 IP12 4STDetached£385,000
4 Aug 201113 IP12 4STDetached£240,000
28 Aug 200713 IP12 4STDetached£215,000
20 Feb 199814 IP12 4STDetached£85,000
16 Feb 200915 IP12 4STDetached£175,000
14 Dec 202116 IP12 4STDetached£385,000
21 Mar 201716 IP12 4STDetached£330,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
4 Nov 201116 IP12 4STDetached£187,000
25 Aug 200618 IP12 4STSemi-detached£202,505
6 Oct 199520 IP12 4TADetached£69,000
10 Jun 199621 IP12 4STDetached£73,000
26 Mar 202123 IP12 4TADetached£325,000
23 Aug 200224 IP12 4TADetached£145,000New build.
11 Dec 201825 IP12 4TADetached£380,000
18 Nov 202528 IP12 4TADetached£472,500
9 Aug 201928 IP12 4TADetached£427,000
28 Jun 200728 IP12 4TADetached£242,500
7 Sep 201829 IP12 4TADetached£425,000
6 May 201129 IP12 4TADetached£315,000
1 Nov 199629 IP12 4TADetached£83,000
12 Sep 201132 IP12 4TADetached£181,500
4 May 200634 IP12 4TADetached£200,000
16 Apr 202136 IP12 4TADetached£312,500
24 Mar 199836 IP12 4TADetached£74,000
13 Feb 200338 IP12 4TADetached£145,000
27 Sep 199638 IP12 4TADetached£57,500
8 Aug 202542 IP12 4TADetached£470,000
6 Dec 200142 IP12 4TADetached£140,500

House prices and rents in East Suffolk

A typical home in East Suffolk cost £277,949 in August 2026, 2.3% less than a year before. That is 7% more than five years earlier and 28% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£403,830
Semi-detached£265,470
Terraced£206,275
Flat or maisonette£140,565
Bought by a first-time buyer£227,188

Private renters in East Suffolk paid £848 a month on average in September 2026, 5.8% more than a year before. That is 37% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£607
Two bedrooms£798
Three bedrooms£947
Four or more bedrooms£1,350

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from April 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

18 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 84 m². Most common: Bungalow, detached (17); Bungalow, semi-detached (1). Built: 1950-1966 (16); 1967-1975 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (13).

Each home's certificates and sales (18 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 13,780 kWh of it on average in 2024, 17% more than the district's 11,770 kWh, and 3,472 kWh of electricity, 19% less than the district's 4,289 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
IP12 4ST211,905 kWh 2112,784 kWh
IP12 4TA162,196 kWh 1610,288 kWh
IP12 4SP133,569 kWh 1515,083 kWh

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is IP12.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

Council tax

What each band costs in East Suffolk in 2026-27: Band D £2,335 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,557£1,816£2,075£2,335£2,854£3,372£3,891£4,670

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (22% of about 1,190 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Energy projects nearby

1 energy project near the street's postcodes.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Foxhall Landfill Site Landfill Gas 1.2 MW Operational Jun 1996 2.5 km (1.6 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Roadworks

Finished in the last three months

  • 30 October 2026: SUFFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, temp obstruction 15 minute delay, on the carriageway (minor works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 2 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 6 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
IP12 4STnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
IP12 4TAnot in 2 or 3 1 / 1 / 1 unlikely
IP12 4SPnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 4 unlikely

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

1 storm overflow within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 6 times, for 1 hour in all, in 2025. They discharge into The River Fynn.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Martlesham Bridge Pumping Station Anglian Water The River Fynn 6 1 880 m (0.5 miles)

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

The highest radon potential in the 1 km squares around the street's postcodes is 1 to 3%: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of that area is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.

Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground that can build up indoors; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. A three-month test with two small detectors is the only way to know a home's level, and a high level can usually be brought down with a sump or better ventilation. UKHSA sells a radon report for a single address from its detailed map at ukradon.org.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

1 historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 160 m away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Bloomfield's Farm Black Tiles Lane, Martlesham 1988 to 1989 Inert 160 m

Closed tips can give off gas (methane and carbon dioxide) and leak into the ground for years. An environmental search, which conveyancers usually order, looks at landfill and contaminated land around the home; the council keeps a register of land it has found to be contaminated.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 39 addresses are between 30 m and 33 m above sea level (32 m on average).

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
IP12 4SP100%100%100%0%
IP12 4ST100%100%100%0%
IP12 4TA100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsWoodbridge 229,000 journeys in 2024–253.6 km (2.2 miles)
Melton (Suffolk) 89,000 journeys in 2024–255.6 km (3.5 miles)
Derby Road (Ipswich) 95,000 journeys in 2024–256.8 km (4.2 miles)
Bus stops2 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Black Tiles Martlesham270 m
Bus or coach stationMartlesham Park and Ride530 m (0.3 miles)
Ferry terminalFelixstowe for Bawdsey Ferry Landing Felixstowe Ferry12.2 km (7.6 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Fastned Charging Station550 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsNorwich Airport NWI67.1 km (42 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN74.4 km (46 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries1 practice within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Martlesham Surgery Good Sep 20251.3 km (0.8 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Tesco In-Store Pharmacy710 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists1 practice within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Martlesham Heath Dental Practice1.3 km (0.8 miles)
HospitalNuffield Ipswich Hospital Good Nov 20164.2 km (2.6 miles)
Care homesAlice Grange Good Dec 20201.9 km (1.2 miles)
Police stationMartlesham Heath Police Investigation Centre670 m (0.4 miles)
Cash machines1 machine within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Mfg - Martlesham Heath Services, Martlesham Heath800 m (0.5 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,200 m²350 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 9,320 m²430 m (0.3 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 450 m²350 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 3.0 ha1 km (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 1.2 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Bowl barrow in Portal Avenue, a scheduled monument, 550 m (0.3 miles) south-west. 7 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Bowl barrow in Portal AvenueScheduled monument550 m (0.3 miles) south-west
Bowl barrow 680m north of Dobbs CornerScheduled monument900 m (0.6 miles) south-west
Bowl barrow 580m north of Dobbs CornerScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) south-west
Woodbridge CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.9 km (1.8 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Dunnett's Hill PlantationWood630 m (0.4 miles) north
Broom HillHill2.3 km (1.5 miles) north-east
Playford MereLake or reservoir2.5 km (1.5 miles) west
Troublesome ReachTidal water3 km (1.9 miles) east
Ferry CliffCliff or slope3.9 km (2.4 miles) north-east
The TipsWetland4.8 km (3 miles) east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)8.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.1205
Particles (PM10)12.04015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5930
Under 553639

3 of the street's 39 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for East Suffolk: see them on the East Suffolk page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 5 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Martlesham Primary AcademyPrimary4–11220 m No published inspection 75% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 60% in 2024 and 65% in 2023)
Gorseland Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Dec 2025): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 63% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 10% at the higher standard (2025; 57% in 2024 and 77% in 2023)
Birchwood Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection 73% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 17% at the higher standard (2025; 67% in 2024 and 40% in 2023)

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

6 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 170 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Premier Education Activities - Martlesham Primary Academy IP12 4SS Out-of-school day care 28 Not inspected yet 170 m
Stagecoach Ipswich IP5 3QR Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Martlesham Preschool IP5 3QR Sessional day care 30 Outstanding (Apr 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Little Leaders Martlesham IP5 3SL Full day care 62 Not inspected yet 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Play2day Nurseries (Ipswich) IP5 3RJ Full day care 68 Good (Apr 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
The Cornerstone Day Nursery and Preschool IP12 4RB Full day care 64 Good (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.3 km (0.8 miles)

Ofsted also registers 229 childminders and 46 home childcarers (nannies) in Suffolk. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 5 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Reach2 At Martlesham Primary Academy IP12 4SSSchool/college/university170 m5 Very good2 Oct 2026
Martlesham Post Office Stores IP12 4SPRetailers - other210 m5 Very good29 Apr 2019
J's Traditional Fish & Chip Shop IP12 4RXTakeaway/sandwich shop440 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory6 Nov 2025

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

4 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Public order2
Anti-social behaviour1
Violence and sexual offences1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Buckingham Close (2); On or near Ravens Way (1); On or near Parking Area (1).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

1 collision in which someone was hurt was reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 0 serious and 1 slight. 1 involved a pedestrian. Most were on roads with a 20 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202110
202200
202300
202400
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
25 May 2021 15:15 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 20 mph Daylight

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the A12 between Eagle Way roundabout and A1214 Main Road, with 46,131 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 480 m (0.3 miles) from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A12 Eagle Way roundabout to A1214 Main Road 46,131 counted 2025 4% 480 m (0.3 miles)

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 611 residents in 266 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age5540
Children under 1512%17%
Aged 65 and over36%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)91%61%
Owned outright62%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented3%17%
Private rented5%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work46%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)43%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)34%32%
Travel to work by car or van57%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus1%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)62%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away16%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)29%34%
No qualifications18%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 8 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

  • Roadworks Street works permit: SUFFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL: Highway repair and maintenance works, 30 October 2026 (temp obstruction 15 minute delay) found 3 November 2026

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Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • IP12 4ST: 22 addresses of 25 in the postcode
  • IP12 4TA: 16 addresses of 17 in the postcode
  • IP12 4SP: 1 address of 22 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Buckingham Close · Ravens Way · Green Lane · Chandos Court · Blacktiles Lane · Angela Close · Alban Square · Main Road · Bloomfield Farm Bungalows · Carol Avenue · Black Tiles Lane · Nightingale Way

All the streets in IP12 and across East Suffolk.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.